Traveling Maintenance Technician

Sun Country; Minneapolis (MN); Remote; USD 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading airline is seeking a Traveling Maintenance Technician responsible for maintaining aircraft at various outstations. This role entails performing both scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, and represents the airline when working with external vendors. Candidates must possess an A&P license and have excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

Benefits

Free standby and discounted travel privileges

401(k) match

Paid Time Off

Life and AD&D Insurance

Qualifications

• Requires A&P license and previous experience.
• Strong communication and self-starter abilities required.

Responsibilities

• Perform scheduled and unscheduled maintenance checks on aircraft.
• Coordinate and report all maintenance activities.
• Ensure compliance with safety and regulatory standards.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Self-motivated

Ability to work effectively under stress

Education

A&P License

Job description

• Pay or shift range: $75,000 USD to $90,000 USD
  
  This is the base compensation hiring range for this role.

Description

About Sun Country Airlines

We’re not your average airline. We’re agile, resilient, and full of unique opportunity. Here, you can grow as part of an ambitious team that safely and collectively supports each other, our travelers, and our community. Together, we're making travel more attainable.

With more than 40 years of Minnesota roots, we're a unique hybrid low-cost carrier offering diverse services including scheduled flights to destinations across the U.S., Canada, Central America, and the Caribbean, as well as charter and cargo operations around the world. At Sun Country, you'll be part of a growing airline, and an enthusiastic team focused on connecting our community with their favorite people and places.

Sun Country Airlinesprovides the resources and support our employees need to succeed. Besides working at an exciting and growing company, as aTraveling Maintenance Technicianyou’ll enjoy these benefits and more:

• PPO and high deductible health plans
• Health savings account and Flexible Spending Account
• Starting day one free standby and discounted travel privileges for employees, family, & friends
• 401(k) match
• Paid Time Off
• Paid holidays
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program including counseling for employees and their family
• Fitness incentive and Stop Smoking Support

Traveling Maintenance Technician Overview:

The Traveling Maintenance Technician is responsible for maintaining Sun Country Airlines’ aircraft in an airworthy condition at outstations where there is no Sun Country Airlines staffed maintenance personnel. This position will also be responsible for MSP Hangar maintenance in the event no rover trips are available.

Essential Roles and Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Performs scheduled maintenance checks and task cards on Sun Country Airlines’ aircraft (i.e., tire pressure checks, RON checks, layover checks).
• Performs unscheduled maintenance to correct the aircraft’s logbook discrepancies.
• Coordinate and reports all maintenance activities and delays to Maintenance Control.
• Acts as Sun Country Airlines’ maintenance representative when an outside vendor is contracted to perform maintenance on a Sun Country Airlines’ aircraft.
• Perform hangar maintenance (MSP) in the event no rover trips are available.
• Conduct all tasks in a safe and efficient manner complying with all local, state, and federal safety and health regulatory requirements, programmatic standards, and with any internal policies and procedures identified by Sun Country Airlines.
• Assists in any other duties as directed by the Manager Maintenance Control.
• Any other duties assigned by management

Required Qualifications:

• Previous A&P experience
• A&P License
• Highly motivated and self-starter
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision under stressful situations

Must be able to obtain MSP SIDA badge and Customs seal

Must have valid driver’s license

• Must have valid passport

Preferred Qualifications:

• Two Years line maintenance
• 2 years 737 NG jet experience
• 2 years’ experience in aircraft structural repair

Compensation:

Pay or shift range: $75,000.00-90,000.00 USD. This is the base compensation hiring range for this role.

Classification:

Full-Time, Exempt

Work Location:

Remote - 100% travel

Supervisory Responsibility:

None

This job operates in the maintenance hangar and ramp area. This role is routinely exposed to all weather elements.

Physical Demands:

Work is performed while standing, sitting and/or walking. Requires the ability to communicate effectively using speech, vision and hearing. Requires the use of hands for simple grasping and fine manipulations. Requires bending, squatting, crawling, climbing, reaching. Requires the ability to lift, carry, push or pull medium weights, up to 75 pounds. Requires activities involving being around moving machinery, exposure to marked changes in temperature and humidity, and exposure to dust, fumes and gases.

Other Duties:

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

AAP/EEO Statement:

It is the policy of Sun Country Airlines to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

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